For fans of the late, great George Knudson, a pilgrimage to his mid-town Toronto gravesite is a fitting and moving tribute to the man who ranks alongside Mike Weir as our outstanding male golfer. I made the trip recently, remembering the golfer I had worshipped as a young boy in the 1960s as I walked through Mount […]
In Praise of Predator Ridge Resort
August 26, 2012 by
(Last updated February 2024.) Canada is home to an exceptional lineup of golf resorts—from Cabot Links and Keltic Lodge Resort and Spa in the East to Fairmont Banff Springs and Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge in the West. But one of my favourites, a place I’d visit every season if I could, is Predator Ridge Resort.
Cape Breton Golf Rides the Perfect Wave
August 15, 2012 by
Like the waves crashing against the shoreline at Cape Breton’s recently launched Cabot Links, golf’s hot spots come one upon the next. In their turn, the courses of Whistler, Prince Edward Island, Muskoka, Niagara, the Laurentians, the Alberta Rockies and more recently the Okanagan Valley have all been the toast of Canadian golf. Now, for […]
True Patriot Love in Canada’s Rockies
August 2, 2012 by
(Last updated November 2023.) A friend recently asked me an intriguing question: If I had ample funds to settle anywhere, where in the world would I choose to live? Canada, I answered without a moment’s hesitation. Ours is a rich and spectacularly beautiful country which, not least of all, is ripe with wonderful golf courses. Admittedly, […]
Relive Beatlemania on England’s Golf Coast
July 18, 2012 by
In an earlier stage of my writing life, I authored Our Hearts Went Boom: The Beatles’ Invasion of Canada (Viking Canada). It’s a fun look back at those heady days in the early ‘60s when the popularity of the Fab Four swept the world and, in particular, Canada. So I was interested to learn that […]
